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From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: What Lisp needs to beat Java, etc.
Date: 2000/11/30
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* Tim Bradshaw
| In this context -- at least in my dialect which is not the same as
| Kent's as we're on opposite sides of the Atlantic -- this use of
| `honest' doesn't have an implication of lying (actually your quote of
| what he said is not so good, some of the surrounding words matter
| somehow).
And not the least the order of evaluation. "If they were honest, a
lot of them would ..." does not imply that the first "they" refers to
everybody out of which a lot would, etc, but rather that the second
"them" refers to everbody, a lot of _whom_, if they were honest (with
themselves), would, etc. This is sort of like getting SELECT clauses
right in SQL queries.
#:Erik
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